The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-02-24

be very, very much in love with her husband; !;
and the heroine of Verona was not unwisc
when she retired prematurely to the tomb of
the Capulets. FANNIE Is. WARD.
Generalitles.
The Italian cabinet has resigned.
Beach has accepted IIanlah's challenge.
Reports from the winter wheat crop are fav-
orabc.
Emperor Williams condition is reported to he
very weak.
Land Commissioner Sparks has been >nubbed
for the 18th time.
The movements of French troops in AIgicrs
cause alarm in Germany.
1t is net libel to call man a "crank' says
the decision of Il Chicago judge.
About thirty divorces We're granted in Chica-
go as days work of the courts.
Mrs. Henry Wood the novelist, is dead. She
was about sXty-Seven years of age.
u. r. Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby) Of the
Toledo Blade is much out of health.
Governor Beaver, of PENNSYLVANIA. signed
the prohibitory amendment resolution.
A large number of men are employed in
strengthening the fortificatons of CatliZ.
More trouble with the Indians has arisen,
this time in New Mexico with the Navajo>.
''Doc" Wilson has withdrawn his application
for Il new trial of his suit against Philip Moen.
Captain Hail. of the Hog Island Lightship,
X. L.. committed suicide by leaping overheard.
OF the 1925 living graduates Of Williams COL
lege. cN-Pre>dent Mark Hopkins has taught all
but 81.
The winter in Indian Territory is reported to
have been mild, and attended by no suffering or
loss of cattle.
Dan Rice, the Snowman and temperance lee
turcr, was arrested i'm Cincinnati last week for
drunkenness.
The African explorer, DR.. lIoluh, and his en-
tire party have been ma>Sacred in the interior
OF the dark continent.
Mauna Loa. ON Hawaii Island. it in eruption.
and the island has been shaken by earthquakes,
but without serious damage.
The committee on accounts of the school
board estimates the expenses of the Boston
schools for lSS,-S at 81 .oG6,SiS.
Miss Frances +. Willard was given Il recep-
ton by the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union i'll New York last week.
A company Ii;i, been formed in Brussels for
the construction of railways in the Congo State
and the settlement Of that territory.
The British government has refused to per-
nit Canadian militia to participate in the
Queens jubilee in London next summer.
Three men We're killed at the burning of Il
livery stable at st. Louis, and a hearse built for
Abraham Lncoln'> funeral was destroyed.
Snow and ice in Montana and Dakota threaten
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suffering and death during the present season.
The Commissioner of Pensions intends to
give Mexican veterans opportunity to establish
their claims to pensions without the all of
agents.
A Quaker visitor at Atlanta, Ga, was robbed
of $1,000 in cash and ~ 900 in checks by burg
lars, who entered his room while he was
asleep.
EX-Treasurer Spcer lIollingsworth, of Knox
county. Ind, was sentenced to three years lnl-
priSonment for embcZZing $SOOO0 Of the coun-
ty funds.
Orders have been received at Brisbane
Queensland. recently from different points on
the Continent of Europe for 1000 eases of cam
ned meats.
Colonel Glider, who aspire> to become known
as the first man to reach the north pole. writes
| from the Hudson Bay territory that he and his
party are we'll
| Old rounterfcitS, which in 1865 caused the
| withdrawal of every genuine $50 grcenbark of
| the second issue of 1868, have made their APP
pearance in Chicago.
China has made full indemnity for the attacks
on American missionaries some months ago,
and the Emperor has proclaimed liberation
throughout the Empire.
| After years of open protection from the city
authorities the gamblers of New Orleans are
subjected to the aspcrty of the law, seventeen
of them having been indicted.
| Carlisles action in refusing to entertain a
motion for the abolition of the tobacco tax in
the House has stirred up great storm about
his ears i'll his own party.
| A bomb-thrower ATTEMPTED to kill Nine. Patti
at the Grand Opera House in San Francisco
February 9th. but the missile exploded
in his own hands, badly injnrins him.
| 1t is stated that the Abys>inians lost 5000 men
| in the battles in which the Italian forces We're
| defeated near Massowah. in the Sou,ian. Jan.
| 26 and -. The Italians lost about 800.
The Marquis OF Lansdowne, Governor Cen
| eral of Canada, when given the freedom of the
city of Montreal, made a speech expressing
| friendly sentiments toward the United States.
John G. Calhoun of South Carolina, grandson
|
ton icd in the United States. lie was Cap
tain in the Confederate service at Is and is now
| II.
York Assembly is believed to be doomed to de-
feat, as the Prohibitionists anG the liquor sell
| ers are united against it.
The entire day Feb. 9was given up in the SEN
ate to eulogies on the late General Logan
| Among the speakers were Senators FRYE, Nor
gan, E,lmunds, Manderson, Hampton, Allison
Hawley and Cockrell.
The breaking up of the ice gorges in the Sus-
quehanna caused great overflow and much
| damage was done, in the cities and towns along
| the river. The Genessee river also overflowed
The western rivers after reaching high stage
began falling last week.
John II. Lester of Brooklyn sues Gen. b. r
Butler for 800 600 on account of injuries sus-
tained, as plaintiff alleges, at the instance OF
Butler during the war. The defendant claims
that the Federal Government, is defendant, as
Butler was acting as its agent.
1t was not a broken rail that caused the Yer.
mont railroad disaster. Testimony before the
Railroad Commissioners showed quite conclus
lively that an axle on the forward truck of the
| rear Pullman car broke some distance back OF
the broken rail. The rail was afterwards brok.
ell by journal from the damaged truck.
Lieut.. Henn OF the yacht Gaatea, who Is WIN
tering at st. Lucia, Indian River, Florida, has
written his views on the proposed yacht race
around the British Islands. He says that, in
his opinion, it is the most absurd course for
race that could be devised. 1t will be ex.
tremeIy fiuky, and local knowledge and pilot.
age will be everything. A good open sea
course would be much more satisfactory. lie
would not enter the Galatea for Il race.
The ice cutting on the Kennebec is completed
All the companies report excellent quality and
thickness has been secured. The KennebeC
companies will cut 100000 tons, which is the
largest and best crop ever harvested. The
season has been unusually cold, and the work
men have experienced much suffering from
frost-btten hands; yet the work has been COM
peted very early.